PROLEGOMENA. VU. 



of the Catholic Church, I shall commence with a 

 short account of that Church : and I am the 

 better pleased to do this, because such a mass of 

 prejudices have been instilled into the minds of 

 men from their very infancy, respecting the 

 Church, and so great is the actual ignorance of 

 its real doctrines and character, that there can 

 be no doubt that I shall hereby be conveying both 

 entertainment and instruction to many readers 

 already quite uninformed on the subject. 



At the head of each Day in the work, it will 

 be perceived that we have given the Names of 

 the Saints celebrated, and to the principal of them 

 we have appended short accounts of their Lives. 

 The reader, who wishes for further instruction 

 respecting this holy order of men, will find their 

 histories amply detailed in Butler's Lives of 

 the Saints, in 12 vols. 8vo. London^ 1812. The 

 study of their lives may be undertaken with 

 great advantage, temporal as well as spiritual, 

 for the following reasons : — 1. Because their 

 history in particular forms so important a part 

 of history in general, that any scholar, deficient in 

 knowledge thereof, would have but an imperfect 

 acquaintance with antient times, and would be 

 unable to understand numerous references to 

 their lives and opinions, to be found in religious 

 and learned books. 2. Because their lives and 

 habits, and the doctrines they taught, have been 



